SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience in Implementaiton and Upgrade of People Soft HCM Applications 9.1/9.0/8.8.
• Solid knowledge, understanding and working experience on PeopleSoft HCM modules (Core HR - Workforce Administration, Base Benefits, Payroll for North America, T&L Absence Mgmt, Employee Self Service and Manager Self Service Modules)
• Involved in gathering business requirements, studying the application and collecting the information from developers and writing the test plan.
• In depth experience working on Testing, Implementation, Customization, Upgrading, and Production Support projects for PeopleSoft HCM Modules.
• Extensive knowledge on NA payroll and Benefits, starting from adding an employee into the PeopleSoft system, enrolling dat employee in benefit program by choosing plan type, options and coverage associated wif various deductions.
• Experience in Testing Techniques, Evaluating the Test Requirements and Defining the Test Strategies
• Experience in Creating Test Strategies, Test Plan, Test Cases, Conducting Team meetings, tracking testing issues and determines if the product meets the quality standards set by the business partner, operations, and support groups.
• Proficiency in designing and executing test cases, preparation of test data and defect tracking.
• Expert in analyzing user and client’s requirement to successfully customize HCM modules and their functionality based on the unique need of organizations.
• Experienced in testing Web Based and GUI based client/server applications using Manual and Automated testing procedures. Involved in all stages of Quality Assurance Life cycle. Extensively followed CMM Methodologies for Quality Analysis. Have programming skills in Java Script, C, VB, SOAP, XML languages.
• Experience includes working wif various tools like Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, Test Director, Jira, Quality Center to perform various activities of Quality Assurance life cycle.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating system: Windows2000/NT/XP/7, AIX, UNIX, Red Hat Linux, Solaris

Web and App Servers: Web Logic, Web Sphere, MQ Series, MTX, IIS, LDAP, SNA server, SQL Servers, IBM 6000, MQ Series (IBM and MS)

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2

Languages: Java Script, JSP, Html, Dhtml, Visual Basic, Oracle, C, C++, SQL, XML, .Net, C sharp, ASP

Testing tools: LoadRunner, Quality Center, Test Director, QTP

Other: Shell Programming, Clearcase, Clearquest, PVCS, Jira

Methodologies: CMM, Quality Assurance, Waterfall, Agile

Environment: Java, .Net, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, LA

PS Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Upgrading Core HR, Benefits, Payroll, Employee Self Service modules usingPeopleSoft9.1 and People tools 8.51.
• Responsible for data mapping, data transferring and preparing test cases/steps/scenarios and testing HR modules and the integration process.
• Worked wif the Technical/functional Team and Business Users to design HR customizations.
• Interacted wif HCM Team to gather the requirements to start the Testing process by understanding the Business process and Blue Print for implementation.
• Designed the Test Plans and Test Cases specifying clearly the Test Data and the Result Expected.
• Created Test cases for T&L and Absence Mgmt modules . Tested various T&L rules, executed Time Approval and Time Load processes.
• Created Test Scenarios, test cases based on Requirements, Specifications, designs from the Blue Prints.
• Coordinated team meetings, Created Requirements in the Mercury Quality Center, Logged Defects in QC, pulled Defects in Report and conducted the team meetings, mentored team members, coordinated wif other module leads in order to complete the testing wif in the time Frame.
• Involved in testing various inbound and outbound files.
• Performed Integration testing, coordinated user acceptance testing handling multiple business process users.
• Worked on HCM setup for company information, location, department, salary grades, job codes, benefit programs, plan types, pay groups and other payroll related issues.
• Responsible for Integration, functional, security and regression testing.
• Developed test cases/test data for Preproduction testing.

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.1, People Tools 8.51s Quality Center Oracle, TOAD

Confidential, Richmond, VA

PeopleSoft Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as functional consultant on PeopleSoft HCM Upgrade from Ver 8.8 to 9.1 & Implementation of N.A Payroll and Time & Labor
• Conducted meetings wif the Managers, Team owners and staff to identify information needs, current challenges, planned initiatives and possibilities for business process improvements.
• Facilitated requirements gathering sessions and fit-gap efforts in preparation for an upgrade project of PeopleSoft Payroll, Core HR, Base Benefits including the Employee and Manager self-service modules.
• Lead the customization and the integration efforts on the upgrade of Payroll, Core HR, Benefits and other self-service modules.
• Assisted project team wif functional analysis, educated business groups regarding key enhancements in the new release 9.1 HCM which include:
• Documented user workflows by coordinating wif the Business Analysts.
• Validated Tax calculations after Tax Updates are applied.
• Expertise in running compare reports and identifying code changes
• Tested all applications End-End (PeopleSoft Hire to Payroll )Manually
• Tested the Payroll, Time & Labor and Benefits functionality in PeopleSoft HR
• Integration, System, Regression and Parallel Testing Payroll, T&L Benefits and HR sub-modules.
• Verified the Payroll process and validated the data in backend tables.
• Involved actively in testing the Conversion Process to load Core HR Tables, Benefits Deduction Tables and Payroll Tax Tables.
• Developed test scripts and executed multiple scenarios using Quality Center.
• Involved in Business functionality review meetings and Use-Case Analysis and developing the templates for User/Customer Training and documentation.
• Actively participated in the weekly meetings and prepared Weekly Status Reports for the issues to be resolved.

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 8.8/9.1, People tools 8.53 Oracle and Windows XP/2008

Confidential, NJ

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Test planning, Test Strategy, Test case design, preparation of test data, Test tool usage, Test case execution, Defect management and building test environment
• Requirements Analysis & Project Planning, Tracking and Execution
• Establish scope and provide estimation for the application/ release.
• Customer Management over Delivery status, issues and action plans.
• Offshore Delivery Management wif adherence to SLAs and Quality processes.
• Full time support for production related issuesin Workforce Administration, Benefits, NA Payroll, Employee Self Service and Manager Self Service modules.
• Defined new PeopleSoft objects, processes and reports as part of enhancements.
• Participating in brain storming sessions and proposednew ideas which improvethe process ofexisting system.
• Co-ordinate wif Business Users, Functional Users and Technical Team on day to day support and on new requirements.
• Participated working on payroll process such as creating pay sheets, pay calculation, pay confirmation and creation of paychecks for the employees on off cycle and on cycle basis and the Payroll to GL interface.
• Experience in writing SQL queries to resolve issues, create test data and validate results.
• Experience in conducting manual sanity, UAT and performance testing by checking the functionality of the modules; testing each object-functionality, dat is, browsers, links, frames, boxes, tables and pages in the modules.
• Designed test case and scenarios for different user groups based on system and business requirements, solution diagrams, help files, and screen mock ups/screenshots.
• Tested the applications by giving scenarios, for example, positive and negative scenarios to payroll application using sanity, regression and other testing methods/types.

Environment: PeopleSoftHCM 8.9, PeopleTools 8.49, SQR, SQL Server.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

PeopleSoft Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing Manual Test Cases and Test Scripts for new and enhanced version of PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9(Human Resource, Benefits and Payroll).
• Tested the HR/Payroll functionality.
• Tested and Validated the employee level PeopleSoft HR tables.
• Validated the data /Payroll/Benefits tables.
• Executed the manual test scripts to check the functionality of PeopleSoft HRMS modules including Payroll for NA
• Tested Tax updates for the entire year 2009 and involved in Year end processing.
• Proposed a QA Life Cycle and ensured standards are followed throughout the Organization.
• Recommended various metrics be gathered and edits to the existing Quality Center Lab and Defect Templates in order to help capture Defects, Test Execution Prioritization & various stages of a Defect Life Cycle.
• Created training materials for all Releases & Enhancements and conducted training sessions.
• Co-ordinate testing efforts wif other Client Access teams and Vendors.
• Performed Requirement Analysis, Business Analysis, Use-Case Analysis and Gap Analysis.
• Involved in testing interface for Core HR, benefits and Payroll Interfaces using Rational ROBOT.
• Automated the functional testing of PeopleSoft web pages by creating the scripts using QTP.
• Extensively worked on People Tools Query for HRMS Module

Environment: PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9, PeopleTools 8.49, TestDirector8.0, Quality Center 9.x

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the development of Software Requirement Specifications, which included functional and system design specifications and constraints.
• Reviewed, Tested and Verified the Standard Operating Procedures written for testing the application.
• Generated graphs and studied them to monitor the software performance and network bottlenecks.
• Prepared a Technical Background Report of the system by documenting the tools and the environments required to install them, installing procedures and configuration.
• Created and modified test scripts by inserting logical commands to handle complicated test scenarios for performance testing.
• Worked as a Member of the QA team, responsible for system testing before deployment Documented test requirements for Perfect Care using Test Director.
• Configured the project settings for Perfect Care project, created user group and user ids for the team members using Site Administrator.
• Participated in walkthroughs and technical reviews all through the testing phrase.
• Created and executed detailed test cases using Test Director.
• Generated test scripts for functional and regression testing using Win Runner
• Enhanced test scripts using user defined functions, parameterization and logical statements.
• Conducted date based testing, extracted test data from tables by using database functions.
• Created Batch Scripts and performed batch testing.
• Adept in using Test Director Bug tracking tool to report application bugs and enhancements request and discussed wif developers to resolve technical issues.
• Software allows only admin user to design an identity card of his choice. User authentications are provided at every level.
• The admin can create fixed fields, variable fields and design own layout of the ID-Card wif the card software.
• The designed cards variable data including images can be stored in the database server wif the help of data entry package.
• Conducted Regression testing for defect fixes and enhancements.
• Prepared a Feasibility and Evaluation report for the modules and plans of the software.

Environment: Test Director, Win Runner, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Windows NT, JavaScript, ASP, UNIX